Outlet Malls, Taxes and Vision

Blogged under El Paso, Environment, ASARCO by 4 Borders Pundit on Tuesday 20 November 2007 at 10:12

El Paso Times reports on the traffic problems being generated by the new outlet mall at I-10 and Loop 375, over on the Westside.

It shouldn’t be news. City, county and state planners haven’t thought well about the Westside, choosing instead to parcel out parcels of land for rapid development, all around ASARCO and the rural clime of the Upper Valley. Irritating issues like quality of life, pollution, competent flood protection and transport networks have not been allowed to stand in the way of the rapid growth of tax income.

Help Wanted: Illegal Immigrants–The FBI and CIA are Recruiting YOU!

Blogged under Border Insecurity, Law Enforcement, FBI, Terrorism by 4 Borders Pundit on Tuesday 20 November 2007 at 04:59

According to TV, the FBI hired a deaf person — Sue Thomas, FB Eye, so why not hire an illegal alien and fraudster as well? Hell, why not make her marriage-fraud sister a Marine?

Nada Nadim Prouty is a name you ought to remember, especially if you’re an FBI or CIA recruiting officer looking to fill empty billets. Oh, wait, maybe it’s a name you ought to remember if you’re not from the FBI or CIA, because they’ve already messed up. Prouty was an illegal alien who apparently entered the US in a sham marriage scheme, rose to the rank of FBI special agent and CIA analyst… before being busted.

What’s really shocking is the nonchalant attitude of FBI and CIA spokespersons about the whole thing… as if immigration enforcement isn’t their job. Which it isn’t, I guess. And in that case, I know some great Spanish-speaking folks in the neighborhood who are clearly cut out for sensitive, clearance-holding jobs at these top-notch American institutions.

Michelle Malkin covers this story, and another… her sister is apparently in on the marriage scam thing as well… and became a USMC officer.

When it rains, it pours: The FBI will have to relook convictions based on a faulty forensics test.

Jihad Watch notes other instances of Federal slack.

Honestly, does anyone in Washington really give a tinker’s cuss about immigration enforcement? Doesn’t seem like it. It seems, instead, that arms of the federal government are actively at cross-purposes with each other — the one enforcing laws, the other dismissing them. And that would be OK — no one expects the government to actually be useful to the citizenry - but the waste of money is galling.

UPDATE: The EPA didn’t want to be left out of the illegal migrant with access to sensitive information news. (HT: Jihad Watch.)

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